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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...clearly an inside job: a closed circuit video showed guards sitting and watching as the escapees marched out of the cells into the waiting convoy. The warden and several guards have since been arrested, though they have yet to be charged. Many of the escapees were members of the Zetas, a feared drug paramilitary based over the border from Texas. The gang is alleged to organize inmates inside several penitentiaries especially in northern Mexico. A fight between alleged Zeta prisoners and a rival gang left 21 dead in a deadly fight in October in a prison in Reynosa, across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Think California's Prisons are a Problem? Look at Mexico's | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

...inside to be roasted by Andersson and Compton. Zellweger, who punctuated the roast with bouts of hysterical laughter, was repeatedly confronted by iconic roles from her past, as she met “Bridget Jones’s body double" and a jealous “Catherine Zeta-Jones,” with whom she was forced to do the Charleston. Throughout the festivities, the Texas native made it clear that she was less than thrilled by the frigid Cambridge weather. “Where was this an hour ago when it was ten degrees outside...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zellweger Crowned Woman of the Year | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

...Central", Cobo had 13 "Hawks" under his command. Above him were Second Commanders. The Zeta ranking system is based on the Mexican military, which is unsurprising considering that the organization was founded by soldiers from the army's special forces who defected to the gangsters in the late 1990s. Cobo knew his superiors only by aliases, in order to protect their identities. "There was Franco, Tarzan, Texas, and Zorro," he said. "He saw a book with names of dozens of police under the unit's payroll, he said, including officers from many nearby towns and federal agents stationed there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a Mexican Narco Foot-Soldier | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

CATHERINE ZETA-JONES to appear as Cleopatra in Steven Soderbergh's 3-D rock musical, featuring the hit single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...number one choice was Scarlett Johansson. Our number two was Catherine Zeta Jones. Those guys were busy with something else once they found out it wasn’t the Hasty Pudding, just the Lampoon,” Davenport said. “We went down the list, we got to Paris, and it was very generous of her to come...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lampoon Nails Paris, Dupes Press | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

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